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Description: | A fragment of a drop handle from an Medieval copper alloy vessel, dating from c. AD 1300-1500. The handle fragment has a large zoomorphic terminal, oval in cross section and measuring 16.25mm in length, 12.6mm deep and 10mm wide. The terminal is in the form of an animal's head; an open-mouthed beast with ears defined by deeply moulded diagonal lines behind the head. The eyes are depicted either side of the open mouth and a muzzle or snout is also recognisable. At the base of the pin's head, behind the ears of the animal, is a round-sectioned shank of copper alloy. This may have been cast separately to the zoomorphic terminal as there is a recess around on side of the shank (although this could also have occured during the casting process is made in one piece). The shank only survives to a length of 10.3mm but it would have bent at right angles around the area of the break, as another example on this database illustrates (see WAW-789544). A very similar handle was found in excavations in London (Egan 1998:175) with a date of 14th to 16th century suggested. For other parallels on the PAS database, see BH-269433, BH-224F84 and especially SF-2772C5 which is almost identical to that recorded here. The function of such objects was to hold the handle to the vessel. These vessels may be caskets, chests or copper alloy vessels.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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